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Rampant Mental Health Fraud Exploits Arizona’s Indigenous Communities 

More than 250 Arizona behavioral health providers have had Medicaid payments suspended because of widespread fraud, throwing patients in the streets and costing taxpayers untold millions. 

MENTAL HEALTH

Behavioral Health Provider Fined $2.5 Million for Claiming to Treat Dead Patients—and Other Abuses

North Carolina’s Southeastern Behavioral Healthcare Services was ripping off US taxpayers for more than four years before they got caught.

MENTAL HEALTH

Pontiac Psychiatric Hospital: The Wages of Sin Is Bankruptcy

Chapter 11 filing comes on the heels of Pontiac’s loss of federal funding after credible charges of abuse, violence and one preventable death. 

MENTAL HEALTH

Pontiac Hospital Latest in Tsunami of Reports of Violence and Abuse at Psychiatric Institutions

A Michigan psychiatric hospital loses government funding over abuse allegations that include an unwarranted death and coercion to receive dangerous treatment. 

MENTAL HEALTH

“Mental Health” Counselors Continue to Rip Off American Taxpayers

Twenty billion in annual fraud originates in the mental health industry. In the latest embarrassment, three Connecticut counselors were caught red-handed. 

MENTAL HEALTH

“I Was Not Suicidal When I Entered, But I Was When I Left”—Crime & Chaos at DC Psychiatric Institute

Psychiatric Institute of Washington, DC, the city’s only for-profit mental hospital, is home to “a disturbing long-standing pattern of abuse and neglect.”